How Shutters Outshine Other Kitchen Window Treatments

The kitchen often acts as the heart of the home—a central hub where the daily lives of residents revolve around. Kitchens are where people spend a lot of time, and where friends and family come in and out all day long and for a variety of different reasons.

Creating the right atmosphere in the kitchen starts with the window treatments, and there are a variety to choose from. For the unique needs and the heavy use of kitchen window treatments, at Don’s Drapery Service, we love shutters. Their ability to combine light control, ventilation, and privacy plus their unyielding durability make them incredibly efficient kitchen window treatments.

Hunter Douglas has three types of plantation style shutters in their collection: Palm Beach™ Polysatin™ Vinyl Shutters, NewStyle® Composite Shutters, and Heritance® Wood Shutters. Known for their moisture resistance and neutral tones, Palm Beach™ Polysatin™ Vinyl Shutters can outperform most other types of treatments in the kitchen.

5 Ways Shutters Outshine Other Kitchen Window Treatments

• Moisture Resistance: Kitchens, bathrooms, and laundry rooms can have a higher moisture level than other areas of the home because of the constant use of water in these rooms. Accordingly, kitchen window treatments should be moisture resistant lest they suffer water damage or, maybe worse, become a safe haven for mold or mildew growth. Since shutters are constructed from hard, impenetrable materials, they are much more moisture resistant than softer materials like fabric. Palm Beach™ Polysatin™ Vinyl Shutters are guaranteed not to crack, warp, or peel due to adverse conditions of moisture or heat—our Palm Beach Promise™ to you.
• Ventilation: Good and bad cooks alike will all have times when they need to air out their kitchen. Shutters, with their unique slatted construction, allow for air flow between their louvers even when those louvers are partially engaged for light control or privacy. Thus, shutters easily create natural air flow for better ventilation in the kitchen.
• Easy to Clean: Kitchens are no strangers to messes, be that from cooking or as the natural hub of activity in the home. Shutters are quite easy to keep clean requiring only routine dusting, and most any heavier stain comes up with the use of a damp cloth and mild cleanser. So as kitchen window treatments, shutters not only keep the chore list to a minimal, but their sturdy components also hold up better to the greasy, grimy, splattering chaos of the kitchen.
• Flexible Interior Illumination: Kitchens can get used 24 hours a day; from midnight snacks enjoyed in solitude over the sink to Sunday suppers cooked with the whole family. Therefore, the best kitchen window treatments are those that can respond to a wide range of lighting needs. The tiltable louvers on plantation style shutters can create an incredible variety of illumination scenes while also providing protection against glaring direct sunlight, UV, and prying eyes.
• Motorization: Kitchens also tend to be busy areas of the home with lots of activities happening, and with so much going on it can be nice to have something that takes care of itself. State-of-the-art motorized operating systems like PowerView® Automation not only grant homeowners easy and convenient access with remote control or online access, but they are also completely pre-programmable so your kitchen window treatments can operate without manual labor. PowerView is available on Palm Beach™ Polysatin™ Vinyl Shutters.

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Update your kitchen window treatments at Don’s Drapery Service, located near Anaheim and Rancho Santa Margarita, California. Shop the range of Hunter Douglas shutters to find the best model for your home with a helpful team of window treatment experts.

Don’s Drapery Service serves the areas surrounding Irvine, Yorba Linda, Rancho Santa Margarita, and Anaheim, CA. Request a consultation today and a member of our team is standing by to help you find the best blind, shades, shutters, and drapes for your next interior refresh for your kitchen or your entire home.